158 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
April 16th. Temperature 60° above. 
April 17th. 70° above with heavy showers after 4 p. m. 
April 18th. 76° above,showery; sunshine and clouds; wind south. 
April 24th. Duchess buds the size of large peas, and about ¢ to ; 
of an inch of green can be seen in the expanding buds. 
April 26th. Transcendent trees begin to look green at ten rods 
distance; 74° above. 
April 27th. Cloudy till about 4:30 p. m.; light shower at 12:30; 
70° above at sundown; wind S. W. 
April 28th. Cloudy; east wind; temperature about 70°; heavy 
showers in the evening. 
April 29th. Wind east by southeast; cool and cloudy. An un- 
usually heavy shower came up from the west by southwest about 
6 p.m. doing great damage to hillsides. High wind accompanied 
the rain. 
April 30th. First strawberry blossom, and first red seen in Duchess 
blossoms. 
May ist. Drizzling rain nearly all day; very high wind about 2a. 
m. with heavy rain. 
May 4th. Cheney plums in blossom; wind north; changed to south 
in afternoon; 68° above; thunder at 7 p. m. 
May 5th. A number of wild plums in blossom; thunder by spells 
nearly all night with little rain. At 3:30 p.m. the worst hailstorm 
I have ever witnessed struck us from the west by southwest and 
lasted twenty minutes. 
May 6th. 56° above atlla.m.; strong west wind; fleeting clouds. 
May 7th and 8th. Spraying with Bordeaux mixture. 
May 10th. 56° to 48° above; cold wind. 
May 11th. 70° above at noon; strong southwest wind; some of the 
petals of the Transcendent falling; Duchess blossoms begin to 
open in large numbers; spraying. 
May 12th. Bees plenty and busy in blossoms; the center of nearly 
all Duchess open on trees southwest of house only; few are to be 
seen among the other Duchess; some clusters southwest of house 
entirely open; 66° above at 10 a. m.; wind southwest; spraying. 
Very light frost in places two mornings this week but no injury 
from it appears in the blossoms. 
May 13th. Petals of Orange crab falling freely; 64° above at 6:30 a. 
m.; thunder clouds; 79° above at 10a.m.; 85° at 3p.m.; warmest 
noted since March 17th; considerable south wind; Duchess, Estaline, 
Briars Sweet and Quaker Beauty in full bloom. First blossom on 
Peerless opened yesterday. Peerless and Wealthy appear to be 
about alike this year in time of blooming. Crescent strawberry in 
full bloom. 
May 14th. Transcendent bloom nearly all fallen. 64° above at 6:30 
a. m.; 74° above at 1l a. m,; 86° above at 3 p. m.; cloudy, wind south by 
southwest; low bank of clouds in west and southwest and north- 
west, with thunder and lightning all the evening. 
May 15th. Very heavy rain and thunder from 4 a. m.to6a. m. with 
strong southwest wind; 67° above at 6 a.m.; blossoms nearly al] 
fallen. 
